Apparatus for automatically photographing persons moving along a confined way.



B. GAN NON. APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY PHOTOGBAPHING PERSONS MOVINGALONG A GONHNED WAY.

APPLICATION IILIBD JUNE 4, 1913.

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UNITED s'rAigas PATENT OFFICE.

BURRELL CANNON, OF LONGVIEW, TEXAS.

APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY PHOTOGRAPHING PERSONS MOVING ALONGrAGONFINED WAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 28, 1914.

Application filed June 4, 1918. Serial No. 771,759.

To all 'Illl am it may concern: I

Be it known that I, BURRELL CANNON, a citizen of the United States,resident of Longview, in the county of Gregg and State of Texas, havemade a certain new and useful Invention in Apparatus for AutomaticallyPhotographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way; and I declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact-description of the same, suchas will enable others skilled in the art to which itvappertainsto makeand use the invention, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings,and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a partof this specification.

Figure l is a side view of the invention as applied to a railway car.Fig. 2is a side view of the invention partly in section and partlybroken away. Fig. 3 is a detail plan View. The invention has relation toapparatus or means for counting or checking fares or persons byphotography, designed to automatically photograph all persons entering aplace, building or vehicle where fares or tickets of admission arecollected; or it may be in some cases to photograph persons leaving theplace or vehicle.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combinations ofdevices hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, the numeral 1designates acamera, wherein the reel 2, carrying the film, is operatedin a step by step manner by persons entering or leaving, to expose newportions of the film, a shutter 3 of the camera being also operated toexpose the particular portion of the film upon which the picture istaken.

The means of operation consists preferably of a mat 4, placed in theentrance or exit, so that all persons passing through will necessarilystep thereupon,--sai'd mat being of air tight character and providedusually with springs 5, to maintain the cover part of the mat in normalraised position; a tube 6 leading from the interior of the mat, andhaving at its opposite end communication with a cylinder 7, whereinworks a'piston 8, the piston rod 9 having suitable operating connectionswith the shutter of the camera and with the filmcarrying reel, so thatthe shutter will be first operated and afterward the reel, upon the samestroke of the piston to move the film, to expose a different portionthereof upon the succeeding movement of the shutter, the film beingmoved at intermediate times to the movement of the shutter.

The mat being compressed by the weight of the person stepping thereupon,the air is caused to pass through the tube into the cylinder and operatethe piston. When the person steps from the mat, thesprings will raisethe coverof the mat to normal raised position and a new portion of airwill be admitted to the mat through an air inlet opening 10. Usually thefilm carrying roller will have a ratchet wheel 11, the pawl 12 of whichwill be operated to turn the roller and cause the film to move by anoperating connection with the piston rod.

The camera may be placed to take either a front or aprofile picture, andat night or upon dark days, a suitable light may be used.

It will be obvious that the invention may be carried out by differentmechanisms, but

a camera having rollers and a film carried by said rollers, said camerahaving its lens in position to photograph persons moving along said way,and automatically-resetting means in said way having an operatingconnection with the shutter and with a filmcarrying roller of thecamera, said means being adapted to be successively actuated by Intestimony whereof I afiix my signature, perslons moving afiong said1 Wayto succesin presence of two Witnesses.

vsive y move said s utter an expo'seaportion T of the film, and atintermediate times to BURRELL CANLON' successively move said film toexpose a Wi n sses:

different portion thereof upon the succeed- B. A. SKIPPER,

ing movement of said shutter. W. L. MATTHEUS.

